Mid - October 2018

Policy Update and other useful information

What is it?
NICE guideline on Decision-making and mental capacity
This guideline covers decision-making in people 16 years and over who may
lack capacity now or in the future. It aims to help health and social care
practitioners support people to make their own decisions where they have the
capacity to do so. It also helps practitioners to keep people who lack capacity
at the centre of the decision-making process.
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng108

Imperial College London - Safe care for adults with complex health
needs ranking survey
Help to rank the priorities for making healthcare safer and preventing
mistakes.
We all expect our healthcare to be safe, but mistakes can happen that may
put patients at unnecessary risk. Usually, researchers decide what healthcare
research is done. However, this survey is allowing healthcare staff, patients,
carers and the public to have a voice in deciding on the priorities for future
research.
https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dd4LawvmKayAyVf

Union creates "toolkit" to help employers support neurodivergent

workers
GMB, a trade union, launches 'Thinking Differently at Work' campaign to
reduce discrimination. The aim of this document is to provide information and
advice that can be used to help make workplaces more inclusive for
neurodivergent workers.
https://www.gmb.org.uk/neurodiversity_workplace_toolkit.pdf

Learning Disability Today (LDT) - Blue badge discrimination

New laws will see blue badges issued to those with hidden disabilities, but
councils already have discretionary powers to give the parking permits to
those with autism and mental health problems. Here LDT show how some

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councils still refuse to use this discretion and insist on seeing disability as a
purely physical issue.
http://bit.ly/2EmXcdE

Disability Rights UK - Police and prosecutors still failing disabled

people on hate crime
New report published by Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service
Inspectorate (HMCPSI) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and
Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS).
The report reviews the progress following the findings of two earlier reports,
published in 2013 and 2015, in relation to cases involving disability hate
crime.
Read it here: http://bit.ly/2PAjABC

Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) – Making it real

A framework to support good personalised care and support for providers,
commissioners and people who access services.
https://www.thinklocalactpersonal.org.uk/makingitreal/

Activity Alliance - The Activity Trap: Benefits or being fit?

Disabled people's fear of being active commissioned by the Dwarf Sports
Association UK and released by Activity Alliance.
New research shows almost half of disabled people fear losing their benefits if
they are seen to be physically active.
http://bit.ly/2yIXqWq

Resources and other bulletins

Easy Read Information - Sepsis

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MLmD0sdXqwTVh3ixMlQ0CnCEIVAVLJgb/view

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Iriss FREE TRAINING - How to communicate with impact

Iriss are running a HOW to communicate with impact workshop on 2 November

in Glasgow. https://www.iriss.org.uk/news/events/2018/08/22/how-communicate-
impact-0

HOW do you get your messages noticed?

HOW do you make sure your communications are understood, and acted on?
HOW do you bring your ideas to life?
HOW do you add a sprinkling of creative magic?
HOW do you write a brief?
HOW do you grab your audience's attention in a surprising way?
HOW do you finish with a flourish?

Book your place here http://bit.ly/2yj7O7V

Blogs and news articles

The Times - Father beats legal bid to silence him over autistic girl in
hospital ‘cell’

A father has won an extraordinary legal battle against a council that sought to
gag him from speaking about the forced confinement of his daughter.

Bethany, 17, has been detained for almost two years in a psychiatric hospital.
The teenager, who has autism and suffers from extreme anxiety, is locked in a
cell-like room with only a mattress and chair and is fed through a hatch in a
metal door.
http://bit.ly/2QPLucV

Learning Disability Today Blog - 'They don't understand'

Anne Lawn from the charity 'Sense'

http://bit.ly/2IWCDDJ

Chris Hatton's blog: Ignorance Is Strength - what do we know about the

progress of Transforming Care?

https://chrishatton.blogspot.com/2018/07/on-5-th-july-2018-there-will-
bewas.html?spref=tw&m=1
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SCIE Co-Production Development Manager - People-powered services in

Oxfordshire

Three weeks into her new role as SCIE’s Co-Production Development Manager,
Kate Pieroudis headed to Oxford to meet the Co-Production Champions- a
group created as part of a partnership between SCIE and Oxfordshire County
Council.

http://bit.ly/2ykpCzF

Disability Rights UK - Nine things you must do to be an exceptional leader

Kate Nash OBE - Driving change for disabled people, and to improve our life
chances isn’t easy. It requires great leadership skill – and being a leader isn’t
easy. It requires you to be the very best ‘you’ in your leadership role.

https://disabilityrightsuk.blogspot.com/

One in five Britons with disabilities have their rights violated, UN told

http://bit.ly/2OWBgKK

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